stoical

The definition of stoical is not showing emotion to joy, pain or unpleasantness.

(adjective)

When you are going through painful cancer treatments but you go through them without complaining or showing your emotions, this is an example of being stoical.

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See stoical in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

  1. showing austere indifference to joy, grief, pleasure, or pain; calm and unflinching under suffering, bad fortune, etc.
  2. Stoic

Origin: ME: see Stoic & -al

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